| Show rELE telegraphic GRAPHIC NEWS OMAHA feb 17 A special ti I 1 the bee from Shel sheldon dOL IB 18 flayer this part of the state slate I 1 ie in a fever of excitement over now new developments develop menta which bid fair air to unravel the mystery the death of maud the handsome 18 year old schoolgirl whose body WM was found aund in her room at her married aln terse lera home last week it is supposed that the girl had bad been dead for three or four days when found as dt di composition had set in the corpse was discovered saturday and the girl bad not been in atten attendance danee at school since wednesday nor had anyone seen her I 1 at I 1 11 I 1 wed strewn strawn asked to be excused as she expected company and aad would have to get dinner herself as her sister with whom she labe was staying ying had bad goue gone to the country on a visit that to Is the last time she was seen een alive by her teacher mates matea neighbors saw her enter the house where she was boarding boardm gand and the first chapter of this mysterious tragedy nde ends saturday art gruff a brother in law of f the de deceased ceasel went to the house to discover what trace he be could fled find of the missing girl anti ami was first to view the ghastly spectacle oo on the wall huog a bird cae aze which contained a dead canary the fact that the bird was also dead leads to the theory that chloroform had bad been administered as wet a was an ample supply of food I 1 lithe L cage for the barua it was thought at first to be a case of suicide deg but later developments have entirely exploded that theory and A JL bull and U J morello have been arrested charged with having criminal knowledge ot of the girls girlis deatle it developed at the coroners inquest that while there was no outward indications of violence yet there was proof of the girl having been outraged SAN SAM DIEGO oal cal feb 17 at the coronado track today the tire of a sextuplet exploded explode dl causing seven wheelmen wheelman elmen to receive injuries the accident occurred at the trial of a racing team for the worlds records in the mile and the balf half mile mlle flying aart welte wells the sau san francisco wonder was paced by the sextuplet with stone scone terrill terrall washburne roe schmidt idt vau aban and Swan brough up I 1 A warming up mile was made and then away they went for a go against time wells keeping within three feet of the rear wheel of the big machines machine and the others putt putting ingull all their metal into the combined effort to leave him wuen near the three quarter pole and going at a gait gair 4 report was board beard and in a or so eo not nothing binic could be soon seen of the wheels or the riders all having gone down in a terrible jumble behind the low fence Swan brough wk wis a the only one however seriously hurt hiu bin left ankle bons bone beilig broken T the he others were bruised about the tha limbs limbo and body except wells welle who escaped with scarcely a bruise washington feb 18 senator lodge chairman of the committee commit tee on immigration today reported a bill irom from bat committee ommittee for tue restriction of trawl the bill provides for the exclusion of all persons who are su u ignorant as an to be unable to read and write any language senator lodge presen presented tou a written report on the bill to la which he be aabye this measure if adopted will exclude a large portion of the present im wilt filtration ration and with few exceptions will tell on the most moot undo immigration no measure ORD be devised which will let to in absolutely very every one who ought to come in and exclude every immigrant who ought to be shut abut out but the he percentage of de rable si immigrants who would be excluded by this bill would be reduced to the minimum 11 the committee also says there can be no doubt that chece is in a general and very earnest ruest desire amoni among the people of the united states to restrict immigration Krat ioD CHICAGO feb 18 blaek bia snow was a novelty enjoyed in this cita tonight between 6 and 7 there was a fall of a couple of laches inches of what seemed in the be dark to bethe be the staple winter article but which on examination under gaa or electric light proved to be decidedly not the ordinary caucasian variety the flake crystal and fleecy enough were of a muddy colored sort that more the ethiopian ean adjective when melted on an extended palm they each leta jeta tiny ink like lie speck in the mesa masa the so o called snow enow looked like three weeks 0 d sub slush the weather bureau officials and other experts were at al first iric fineu to attribute the non to local atmospheric conditions in common with the emoke and grime glime oi of me city advices advises Ad vices however that the same results were observed at suburbs thirty five miles allies distant speet all such explanations rhe storm began begaii at p wa a and spasmodically until far into the prom from evanston Eva neton to the indiana state line aud and from rum the shore ot of lake michigan to the most wester ay suburb the square miles milea from cook county were swept by the peculiar visitation the streets street down downtown town were crowded when the duet billel snow first began to lo fall the garments of pedestrians pede striano presented the appearance ot of having been covered with dust anu and then sprinkled with water anen dry the dirt wait waa easily removed aud and no was left telegrams received from points as far as the cities of eastern iowa told of similar phenomena TSOY troy N Y feb 18 several fire are still detill pouring water upon abe ruins of the burnett funding II if any victims are in the abe rulus it wild be impossible to reach the bodies for hours hour perhaps daye no additional names of missing people have been reported according to deputy state factory inspector devine the avei avenue auen ii of escape irom from the building were plenty the flab filth floor where the he flames broke out is divided by a partition in two part with a door in the center known as aa the fire door to be opened only I 1 in a ucb emergency the south part where the fire flasted flatted flat ted was occupied by Stott beiMer co and the north part by van zandt jacobs jacobo co from one of these two department there was a stairway leading directly to be street it if the door in me partition separating the two departments had bad been opened then the employee emp loyes ol of belmer co could have escaped through the department of van sant jacobs and down the north stair way none of the employed emp loyes of van daft bant jacobs co were injured as an fat far as learned the presumption la Is that the door between the two departments was never opened insurance Ine urance men estimate the lots joss on the burnett building at two thirds covered by insurance ou on the mccarthy building buil dino the damage wl wi I 1 not exceed the following lowing lol lu its the list of dea dal mrs catherine kant arr margaret corroll Cor MM maj johanna johann doyle others mentioned as missing last night are safe it Is ie not believed there ser anybodies in the abe SANTIAGO DE DB CUBA felp feb 18 an earthquake preceded prece deil by deep rum and alarming noises has been experienced here the linbo were terror stricken until the oe wearied aried I 1 constantinople feb 18 clara ciara bartoo barton president Went ot of the can lied had cross society has here and to is organizing a ass the me distribution of relief to the ing armenian Armeni aoe it has been arranged that rev ev P napp the american missions mission a bithe mccomi accompanied anted by family come to this ibis city to be the united states minister terr terrel arelus arn lus the be charge of soji sedition tion bt against him by the authorities NIAGARA FALLS JN Y feb A in the liao hi bi of the falls alia made possible by toe title condition is just aude guidance tit of juhn john barlow thed theca itie wind windi i guide a party or thirty evening mue au exploration ot of cave ot of lue which coll reached by reason of the rems ice formation lor mation tiou the cave as thyl it a remar remarkable katle sapp appa a anu and could blue bille a small ar army 0 of in some places the ice formed on towered sixty to eighty the heads beads or of the spectators stead ol of the immense lin menee volume ul of ordinarily over there then t carcell car cely more than a mist foil this the entire party starting fro from spot pot which is within the circle a of 1 falls faile walked east ou the M bruge to the incline railway dik dereu before the american lalia falls and W witt tuil full sweep of it following almoite line of the course taken by the of the mist steamer in the ih navi season BARRIE ontario feb St rainy the manager of the bai commerce in this town lor for aft fit year was shot and lati fatally ally woo today by an unknown man who abo athi at hia house shouse the ass apelt fled SENEY mich feb 19 fo four or were boiled and eoven seriously will topi today by the steam lug healer hauler at T kay kays camp the engine came buco troll able and ran aown road at full speed catching the v before escape wee was possible ST LOUIS feb 19 an ocala special says alter after ten days of torture at a con sonvi camp whither they had bad been sent 01 tramp eleven young men were 1 leased on writs write ut u haneas corpus ise ty oy circuit judge H oker the you men gave their names as ge 36 daun derc charles smith kento jack ingram ingrad ohio oscar wa W missouri thomas cummings daviss davis new york thomas for E i pennsylvania jack ryan byan louis dm chint illinois john SOL renae joseph stone massachusetts two weeks ago the party rose reach ocala they i were well dressed said ail they w berei eret walking to see country better belter and tj hunt bunt and fish 8 will wid they had a lot of kovl novelties aties i sale tibey did not ask aid but t dy after their arrival they were aar t rested justice clary ciary sent them to th r convict farm as tramps at the ranch they were barbarous barbarously treated they were chained ton R aud aua given impossible tasks ees afi night upon lepor ting the tasks un enpek formed they were stripped tied logs logo ald whipped with rachides rawhides raw hides bides an M 64 the be blood gusher last night it tf i of of the winter the guards drove into a pond ab shouting outing you been wanting a batu bato now get it 21 to a day they were given bread toleat to an 0 meat at J judge hocker B re they bared their backs which found raw and quivering five in way may not recover in discharging the he young men judge rocker hooker said arrest sentence and treatment disgraced faced civilization and every one deemed in it should be severely dished the habeas corpus proceedings were brought by ocala citizens the ethe victims of the outrage will bring teavy suits for damages feb 19 contracts were wawa awn up in chicago to jay ay by means meane of which it to is promised that packer and shippers dippers hip pers of perishable food pro aids will in future get along without itil ice aar adr dr A T perkins now a resident of bingo tt eago has baa patented a process ol of kiang meats fruit and perishable during transportation by the aft ot of sterilized air the cont contract tact concluded today was between him and J IL smart of melbourne manager 0 01 australian meat transportation era Wp oration tion limited for the use of the process antho in the seven colonies of australia A corporation is also to be formed with headquarters in chicago to conw the tee process over the railroad jine of bis country and the steamship lines from the ports of north and soft Amer america jus feb 19 W H medarde ayoung yang miner who arrived in denver alway from newcastle was an eye of the terrible explosion 0 ll 11 yes by which over sixty m miners iners were killed he was expecting ex pec ing yesterday morning to go to work to the mine bine for one of the dore do re boys three ot of whom wets were killed but at the last mo 1 ceat vt his bis glanb were changeat ob ch anaed angea mr says the explosion was almed in ID the same manner as the one 04 ft the same mine eight or nine years year goo fe gas combined with coal dust forms atme an excellent medium for an ex lion especially when there Is in is a blowout 1 1 shot behind it in this oase be may bays a shot was probably not well wall camped tamped the tamper blown out mid toe flame set met off we the gas and dust duat great precautions were taken in the line to avoid an explosion themen the men wore were all required to carry safety lamps IOWA and were not allowed to have ODY ny tobacco or matches the italians ho however were careless mr medart ay and violated the regulations imposed upon apon them for their own protection whenever wey they got a chance the explosion shook the towne mile add a halt half from the mine people to robbed abod from their houses and saw abat at the mountain appeared to be a WW mass of smoke and dust only anly one body had been recovered when mr medaris left newcastle laul last night it was that of joe dore and wn was found about feet from the mouth of the mine he was coming out oat when the explosion occurred and in fu two minutes more would have been safe AsHa N C feb 19 edgar nye kye the bill nye of the world ot of humor whose writings have made the world laugh baugh Is seriously ill at his bis home at buck shoals eight miles south mouth of asheville about two weeks ao ago mr nye was taken ill and since that time fhe the trouble has beau babeu slowly progressing until now dow his bis condition is very serious lie he is suffering from a stroke strobe of apoplexy johannesburg south african re public Feb 20 copyrighted 1896 by the associated press details are reaching this city today of what 18 s probably the most disastrous dynamite explosion on record in any part of the wo id thousands of people lave have been rendered homeless by the terrik terr hlf le calamity and about a hundred hundri are re believed to have been killed and two or three hundred mien men women and children wounded and many others more or lees leas injured p the scene of the calamity Is a sul out u rb of johannesburg in it are huddled members of the poorer ci cla asep ses white malaya kaffits and CIn awen who subsist for the most part by doing odd jobs about the place which is a railway transfer station for the mining districts among the freight cars standing on the shunt mines ai af yesterday were eight trucks loaded with dynamite hi bidden ciden under canvass coverings to protect it from the rain and sun As the evening was approaching there was an ex closton near the freight deposso dep oteo otso awful in intensity that the ground lor for miles around was convulsed as if by an earthquake houses bouses rockets and fell and masses of iron earth stone wood and human remains were hurled buried oky warde the windows in almost every house bouse in johannesburg were broken and people blown through the air like straws before a gust gnat or wind the explosion had bad torn a hole bole feet loog long and 80 feet wide over the spot where the eight trucks of dynamite stood but a few minutes before AM AH that quarter ot of johannesburg was lit orally blown to pieces the effects of the explosion could he be seen over a radius of more than a mile and almost everything within halt half of a mile where the trucks had bad been shunted for the right was razed to the ground and crushed by the dynamite beyond re demotion demp tion iOD the ironwork was twisted and torn stones destroyed oes troyed and brickwork pulverized on the ground were the blackened shapes of human remains limbs heads trunks scorched robed and torn the victims were mostly malay balays kaffits and Chin ameo the w whites bites being in a minority at bieden dorp but quite a number of white people including six girls were killed kille iJ ill n fifteen minutes alter after the explosion the bodies of forty dead persons horribly mutilated were picked up and |
